I recently bought new parts to build a new pc. For likely obvious reasons, I could not purchase a new GPU. I built my pc this weekend and utilized my old GPU (ASUS Strix 970).
My original purchase for PSU was an NZXT C750. Everything worked great until I asked my GPU to do more work - playing graphic heavy games. I crash to black, pc still runs, audio still runs, video is out. Requires a hard reset.
I ended up trying my old PSU purchased more than 10 years ago (PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk II 650w) and everything worked perfectly. I figured it was a faulty PSU, so today a traded in the NZXT for and EVGA 850GA. The same types of crashes occur when the GPU is under heavy load. I cannot for the life of my understand why my PSU that is more than a decade old runs my GPU just fine, but newer PSU's do not. Any ideas would be appreciated.
I've tried various cables between the new PSU's and the GPU, all of them result in crashes. Although, one seemed to keep things running for a bit longer, but it may have been a fluke.
I've also tried the newest and rolled back versions of my GPU driver.
Since I get no error message it's hard to know where to start. I've looked through the event viewer and their are no app error/warning reports. Sometimes system warnings pop up when a crash occurs, but not always.
Again, when I run the pc on my old PSU, everything works perfectly.
Here's details on my build:
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z490-A
RAM: Crucial 32 GB 16x2
Installed RAM: 32.0 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Thanks for any ideas!
My original purchase for PSU was an NZXT C750. Everything worked great until I asked my GPU to do more work - playing graphic heavy games. I crash to black, pc still runs, audio still runs, video is out. Requires a hard reset.
I ended up trying my old PSU purchased more than 10 years ago (PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk II 650w) and everything worked perfectly. I figured it was a faulty PSU, so today a traded in the NZXT for and EVGA 850GA. The same types of crashes occur when the GPU is under heavy load. I cannot for the life of my understand why my PSU that is more than a decade old runs my GPU just fine, but newer PSU's do not. Any ideas would be appreciated.
I've tried various cables between the new PSU's and the GPU, all of them result in crashes. Although, one seemed to keep things running for a bit longer, but it may have been a fluke.
I've also tried the newest and rolled back versions of my GPU driver.
Since I get no error message it's hard to know where to start. I've looked through the event viewer and their are no app error/warning reports. Sometimes system warnings pop up when a crash occurs, but not always.
Again, when I run the pc on my old PSU, everything works perfectly.
Here's details on my build:
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z490-A
RAM: Crucial 32 GB 16x2
Installed RAM: 32.0 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Thanks for any ideas!